Measuring Spatial Justice Without Reinventing the Index
A city council once asked me to review their 'inclusive prosperity index.' It had seventeen variables, a proprietary weighting scheme, and a color-cod...
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A city council once asked me to review their 'inclusive prosperity index.' It had seventeen variables, a proprietary weighting scheme, and a color-cod...
Sao Paulo's Gini coefficient dropped 12% between 2000 and 2010. Officials celebrated. But ask anyone in the favelas on the periphery: their lives hadn...
The openion window I saw a heatmap of eviction filings at the parcel level, I felt smart. Then I tried to use it to set a rent stabilization zone. The...
Spatial inequality metric have become the go-to tools for funders, planners, and activists who want to measure who gets left behind. But here is a tru...